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Cnoc is a generic word for a hill which is<br />
smaller (than a be<strong>in</strong>n or meall...) Cnocan is a small<br />
cnoc. Knockan near Elph<strong>in</strong>, a famous location for<br />
geological <strong>in</strong>terpretation, is An Cnocan (‘<strong>the</strong> small<br />
hill’).<br />
Parts of <strong>the</strong> body crop up <strong>in</strong> <strong>landscape</strong> names<br />
frequently. Examples are sàil (‘heel/mounta<strong>in</strong><br />
spur’), sròn (‘nose/ridge runn<strong>in</strong>g off a mounta<strong>in</strong>’),<br />
druim (‘back/ridge’), cìoch (‘breast/breast shaped<br />
hill’), gualann (‘shoulder/corner of a mounta<strong>in</strong>’)<br />
and ceann (‘head/end’).<br />
Some mounta<strong>in</strong>s have entirely unique names.<br />
Slioch is An Sleaghach, ‘<strong>the</strong> spear one’, possibly<br />
for its dramatic po<strong>in</strong>ted buttresses. The proper<br />
pronunciation of Qu<strong>in</strong>ag (‘KOON-yak’) only<br />
makes sense <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> orig<strong>in</strong>al Gaelic (cu<strong>in</strong>neag), a<br />
water pail, which it is thought to resemble.<br />
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Sgòrr Tuath and Sgòrr Deas, Be<strong>in</strong>n an Eò<strong>in</strong><br />
Sgòrr Tuath is Sgòrr Deas, Be<strong>in</strong>n an Eò<strong>in</strong>
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